Into the mystic

And we sailed "IntoThe Mystic"

Van Morrison

"We were born before the wind
But so younger than the sun"

WHO WRITES STUFF LIKE THIS--???

Well, that's where i was today--- exhausted, and sailing "into the mystic"!!!!!! My feet wish i was already there, but my mind senses that this experience is just beginning to evolve.

Jesus, Bhudda, Allah, Yahweh, "finding" the "self", inter-religious connectivity-- it was all part of my walk today--- it goes very deep and challenges me to ask myself questions that i have time for on the Camino!!!! Mystical......

I find trying connect myself, with my limited but growing spanish vocabulary, and the folks who speak a little french, a little english, a lot of spanish, some danish---it's kinda like putting all the world's religions in one basket and expecting them to "get it" and understand one another right away. Well, that's where we are on the Camino!!! The walk is good, although late in the day my age starts to show, but one of the girls from Korea said i look "smaller"!!!! Totally unsolicited, so that felt good after sweating for 5/6/7 days straight.. I have lost track of time, but my watch has "days"-- again, change my way of thinking-- running marathons i had every mile "indexed" with it's time!!!!! Now i can't even clock a kilometer!!!

I'm on the Camino as a pilgrim, student, father, husband, music fan extraordinaire, world citizen!!!!and my conversations involve each one of these roles!!! And more. It's fascinating, at least to me-- I understand it's not for everyone, or "not everyone's cup of tea, but for some unexplainable reason i am very comfortable on the Camino.
I lived on the metro in Paris for four days in 1981, and I searched for housing in Seattle in 1979 for two days, so this is a longer and more developed version of those experiences. As i am older, it might be more challenging mentally, but i am just going with the flow!!!!

It's amazing, it is. To think had I started a day earlier, or a month earlier, my experience, my dialogue, the people i've met, the thoughts i've had--- they would all be totally different but for the one day i did start!!!!!! I'll never meet the people who did this in July, and they'll never meet me--- and i feel that i have met some very special, sincere, caring, and thoughtful people!!! But no two people's experience on this trip can possibly be the same----as Jean-Pierre said, you are never lost, as it is your own path, no one else's.

Back to world religions--- this is a historically "catholic" walk (1200 years historic), but there all walks of life here, and many are in "search" of their "self" , or "deeper self", to know themselves better--- what better way to do that than to travel, walk, and reflect. I find the spiritual conversation stimulating, as i'm getting perspectives from the young (so far) and i'm sure i will from the old..... The "truck" that snores is danish and older and speaks english well so that should be interesting--his nephews live in Cincinnati!!!

I walk alone, with people, alone, rest, catch up with people--- etc--- we're all heading the same way--some of us are here for a week and will come back, some of us here to go to Santiago, and some have no particular destination---and you reading this have your own path you're following as well, your "camino"-

It's a "potpourri" (french-- what's the spanish word for that??)

Potpourri of:

Spiritual dialogue
Religious tradition
National heritage
Pace of walk

I'm one of the slower ones, which allows me to.....

Sail into the mystic, quite peacefully

Peace
Tt

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